Keiyo was conceived and born in New York City in July, 2015.
Our collaboration with the Brooklyn art gallery "The Bishop" garanties future shows in the city.

Basel, Switzerland

Keiyo’s headquarters and where the magic of Keiyo happens.

Tokyo, Japan

A classroom of students spent time brainstorming names for a pop-up gallery that would donate half its profits to charity.
The result was 恵 与, or keiyo, meaning ‘the joy of giving’.

Pacific Ocean, near Roca Partida Island, Revillagigedo, Mexico

Photographer Anaur Patjane Floriuk captured an incredible moment with a humpback whale and her newborn calf in “Whale Whisperers”. The sale of this image enabled our first donation, to Oceana, in autumn 2016.

Costa Rica

German photographer Rainer Waelder’s image of an iguana in Costa Rica was used in Canon television advertisements in the US for over a year.

Lake Erie, Canada

Canadian photographer Dave Sandford captures incredible images of late autumn and winter waves on Lake Erie.

Miami, Florida

Keiyo’s first pop-up show took place during Art Basel Miami in December 2016.

Cuba

Photographer Eduardo Herrera has been photographing life in Cuba since 1994.

Africa

French photographer Laurent Baheux is known for his exceptional photographs of African animals. His portraits are featured in international galleries and he has published numerous books of his photographs.

Bangalore, India

Raphael Rapior’s series “In Shiva’s Shadows” was shot in India. This collection was showing in New York when Raphael first had the idea for Keiyo.

Mongolia

Videographer Milo Zanecchia’s award-winning footage from his overland trip from Switzerland to Mongolia first introduced us to his work. He is currently working on a film about Keiyo.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Writer and editor Kristin Pedroja supports us with words to help spread our mission.

The Donation

Half of the proceeds from the sale of this photograph will be donated by the Artist and the Keiyo Art Gallery to Instituto Terra.

Founded by award-winning photographer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sebastião Salgado and his wife in 1998, Instituto Terra’s mission focuses on environmental research, education, applied scientific research, and restoring the fragile subtropical rainforest ecosystem in and around a former cattle ranch near Salgado’s home town of Aimorés, Brazil. Salgado is an economist who found his calling with photography while working with the World Bank in Africa. He has published numerous books which focus on nature, environmental awareness, and human communities which live in accordance to their ancestral traditions and cultures. He and his work are the subject of the film The Salt of the Earth (2014), which won a special award at Cannes and was nominated for a 2015 Academy Award.

About the Artist

Rainer was born in 1984 in Freiburg and grew up in southern Germany along the Rhine River. He has always been drawn to remote nature and discovered his passion for photography while working as a cowboy on a Wyoming ranch. He is drawn to storytelling and capturing anecdotes through his photographs, hoping they entice viewers to see beauty where it may not have been recognized before.